Musk posted this useful chart on X earlier this year. It says a lot.
Posted on 06/04/2025 12:32:58 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4), set to take off from Nasa's Kennedy Space Center in Florida next week, will be piloted by an Indian as it soars towards the International Space Station (ISS).
Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla of the Indian air force is among the four-member multi-country crew of Ax-4 that will be spending two weeks on the ISS.
The flight, scheduled for 10 June at 08:22 EDT (12:22GMT; 17:52IST), has generated a huge interest in India as Group Captain Shukla will only be the second Indian ever to travel to space and the first to visit the ISS.
The trip comes 41 years after cosmonaut Rakesh Sharma became the first Indian to fly to space aboard a Russian Soyuz in 1984. He spent nearly eight days there.
Ax-4 is led by former Nasa astronaut Peggy Whitson - a space veteran who has been commander of ISS twice, spent hundreds of days in space and done 10 space walks.
The team also includes Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski from Poland and Tibor Kapu from Hungary - just like the Indian astronaut, they will also be taking their countries back to space after more than four decades.
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The trip to ISS aboard Ax-4 - a commercial flight operated by Houston-based private company Axiom Space - is a collaborative effort between Nasa, Isro and European Space Agency (Esa).
Tuesday's flight will be launched using the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule on a Falcon 9 rocket.
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Doin’ what the Hindu
Hopefully no curry meals...
“Hello NASA, your computers are infected. For just $149 we will rid your computers of the nasty virus....you can use PayPal...just send fee to ISS....”
Why are they calling this an Axiom/NASA/Isro/ESA flight when SpaceX is doing the heavy lifting? Shouldn't SpaceX get top billing here?
Musk posted this useful chart on X earlier this year. It says a lot.
No continental breakfast will be provided
How do they know they won’t be stranded for 8 or 9 months?
Nice. We can’t hate our media enough.
Does he go by “Kevin”?
Because they are going SpaceX, Boeing.
Correct.
Musk has done a LOT for free speech with his acquisition and operation of X.
Is it the perfect free speech platform?
No.
But it’s pretty damn good.
What they mean to say is the launch will be a SpaceX Falcon 9 and SpaceX Dragon capsule PAID for by Axiom Space.
Geez H1B astronauts...(Just joking on that good luck guy)
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